Educating about women's health

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Special health education programmes should be developed in cooperation with the education sector, focusing on the role of women in the health care system.

2. For every year a girl in the developing world spends in school, the likelihood of her future children dying in infancy goes down by 6% and of herself dying in childbirth by 8% – and women's education can also contribute to knowledge of birth control.

1. Teaching basic health practices
2. Publicizing health
3. Providing health education
4. Promoting women's public health issues
5. Giving attention to sexual health of women
6. Expanding social participation of women
7. Educating women
8. Educating public health

1. Training community health workers
2. Informing about womens health hazards

1. Strengthening comprehensive health care for women
2. Reducing individual fertility
3. Improving status of women
4. Assuring family health care

1. Improving access of girls to basic education

1. Neglect of sexual health of women
2. Menstruation
3. Menstrual disadvantage of women
4. Inadequate maternal and child health care
5. Ignorance of women concerning primary health care
6. Diseases of female reproductive organs

1. Health

1. Forum for Women's Health
2. OBGYN.net
3. Center for Women's Health Research and Innovation
4. Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health
5. Learning Objectives OB-GYN 101
6. The Women's Health and Education Organization